Reading list

Here's a list of books and authors I've mentioned in my blog, along other books I've read recently and/or really like. An asterisk (*) by a title means I've read it, but would NOT recommend that you do the same.

• Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park
• Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
• Alain de Botton, various*
• Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September, Collected Stories
• Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Villette
• AS Byatt, The Children's Book, The Virgin in the Garden and sequels (especially Babel Tower)
• Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal, The Luminaries
• Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone, The Woman in White
• Lydia Davis, Collected Stories
• Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, The Body Artist, Falling Man
• George Eliot, Middlemarch
• Anne Enright (ed.), The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story
• Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, The Marriage Plot
• John Fowles, The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Sarah Hall, The Beautiful Indifference and Other Stories
• LP Hartley, The Go-Between
• AM Homes, May We Be Forgiven (*mostly)
• Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, Washington Square
• James Joyce, Ulysses
• PD James, Death Comes to Pemberley*
• Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
• Helen Macdonald, H Is For Hawk
• Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways, The Wild Places
• David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
• Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, Lolita, Despair
• Flannery O'Connor, Complete Stories
• Frank O'Connor, My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories
• Alice Oswald, Memorial, Woods Etc., Dart
• Alex Preston, The Revelations (*ish)
• Jane Robinson, Bluestockings
• Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral
• Ali Smith, How To Be Both, Girl Meets Boy, The Accidental, Artful
• Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Colm Toibin, Brooklyn, The Master, The Empty Family
• Anthony Trollope, The Warden, The Way We Live Now
• Fred Vargas, An Uncertain Place* (translated from French by Sian Reynolds)
• Marina Warner, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights